LEONGATHA, Wednesday.—A decision that may have a farreaching effect in view of the many prosecutions on charges of ...
Article : 322 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Saying that the crime was one of "fiendish brutality," the deputy coroner at Tamworth (Dr. A. H. McTaggart) ...
Article : 289 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Planned decentralisation of factories was emphasised as an aspect of defence policy by the Minister ...
Article : 207 wordsSEA YARNS WERE SPUN to these Navy League Sea Cadets last night by Earl Beatty, son of Britain's famous wartime admiral, when he visited their hall at Half Moon Bay. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsA warning that if the terrific race in armaments was not checked every country in Europe would eventually be forced into bankruptcy was ...
Article : 992 wordsAccording to the "Financial Times" the British trade mission to Moscow will base its discussions on the following three principal ...
Article : 204 wordsAustralian munitions manufacture will be demonstrated to two principals of the British Air Mission—Sir Donald Banks and Air-Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore— ...
Article : 158 wordsTwo pilots were killed and eight war planes were wrecked in Florida in one of the strangest disasters in naval aviation history. ...
Article : 93 wordsNot since the days of compulsory training in 1929 have so many trainees been encamped. More than 5,000 men are attending seven ...
Article : 155 wordsSuccess in an air battle yesterday is claimed by the reorganised Chinese air force. Sixty-two planes, which were said to ...
Article : 264 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Although unable to assign the loss of the Belbowrie to any definite cause, the Court of Marine Inquiry, presided over by Judge Markell, ...
Article : 168 wordsMAFFRA, Wednesday.—Arising out of a visit by the Minister for Water Supply (Mr. Old), Mr. I. B. Hughes, resident district engineer for the State Rivers and Water ...
Article : 148 wordsJUNEE (N.S.W.). Wednesday.—The president of the Junee Hospital Board (Mr. H. S. Belling) said to-day that legal opinion obtained on the resolution passed ...
Article : 173 wordsTen 14in. guns in three turrets are the principal armament of the new battleship, King George V., of 35,000 tons, which was launched from the Vickers-Armstrong ...
Article : 254 wordsAn excellent response is being received to the appeal for older men to form a special section of the 4th Field Artillery Brigade. So far 44 men have joined, and ...
Article : 145 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—Opening the Labour party's election campaign at Geraldton to-night, the Premier (Mr. Willcock) said that the issue was whether the ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. Roy Fox, the American dance band conductor, is meeting with considerable success in his quest for undiscovered talent suitable for appearance in his programmes ...
Article : 142 wordsBITTERN, Wednesday.—The Melbourne University Rifles, who have been in camp at Bittern since Sunday last, were joined to-day by three other regiments, ...
Article : 132 wordsDiesel transport developments in Australia are being carefully investigated by General Motors-Holden's Ltd.. which has carried out a series of trials in the last ...
Article : 224 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—An incident in Sydney this week, in which a pilot at the Mascot aerodrome declined to make a flight with a foreigner who wished to ...
Article : 85 wordsThe first passenger aboard the Kitano Maru to have a birthday on the Japanese liner's next northward run from Australia will receive a pleasant surprise. ...
Article : 185 wordsAs chairman of the executive of the Navy League in London, Earl Beatty visited the Navy League drill hall at Black Rock last night and unveiled a ...
Article : 158 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Australia's veteran political leader, Mr. W. M. Hughes, who has dominated audiences, cheering or hostile since before Federation, sat in his ...
Article : 161 wordsECHUCA, Wednesday.—Because Australia was so far removed from Europe it did not necessarily follow that she was removed from all possibility of war, and ...
Article : 160 wordsUnconditional surrender is still the last word of General Franco to the Spanish Republican Government, says the diplomatic correspondent of the "Evening ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Secretary for War (Mr. HoreBelisha) was asked in the House of Commons yesterday if he was aware that Gibraltar was totally unprepared to resist ...
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Advertising : 112 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Commonwealth Government is unlikely to despatch the polar exploration ship Wyatt Earp, which it bought recently from the ...
Article : 93 wordsNotwithstanding denials by the German authorities, it is reported that members of the Nazi party in London will move into new headquarters at the former Austrian ...
Article : 75 wordsTo raise a public service company in each of two battalions, lunch-hour recruiting meetings are being held by the Australian Defence League. ...
Article : 122 wordsAs the date of the assembling of the Conclave of Cardinals (February 28) approaches, the election of a successor to the late Pope Pius XI. is being more and more ...
Article : 81 wordsSouth African wool exports in January amounted to 30,959,0001b. of greasy and 752,0001b. of scoured, of which 13,184,000 lb. of greasy and 266,0001b. of scoured were ...
Article : 68 wordsThe chairman of the Tramways Board (Mr. H. H. Bell), replying yesterday to the suggestion of the Australian Wool Board that moquette should be used for ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Governor of Bengal (Lord Brabourne), who underwent an operation at the week-end, is seriously ill. Lord Brabourne, who is aged 43 years, has ...
Article : 39 wordsCommenting on Mr. Chamberlain's speech, the "Berliner Boersen Zeitung" says: "He showed a desire to put a distance between himself and people in ...
Article : 58 wordsAn unexpurgated edition of Herr Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) will be published in Britain next month. ...
Article : 24 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Federal Government will make an early start on the fortification of Port Moresby, Defence Department officials, it is stated, have ...
Article : 60 wordsMore than 40 tropical fish have been born at the Melbourne aquarium since a consignment of 450 fish was received two weeks ago from the Dutch East Indies. ...
Article : 78 words—When Andrew Ashton Waller Hills, aged five years (above), was told recently that he had been created a baronet by the King he wanted to know if it was something to eat! He is the son of the late Major Waller Hills, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 95 wordsHeavily guarded by the Gestapo (secret Police), whose members mixed with the audience and actors, Herr Hitler, the Minister for Air (Field-Marshal Goering), ...
Article : 89 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Reply to complaints on behalf of the Amalgamated Engineering Union about the importation of engines and auxiliary machinery and gear ...
Article : 96 wordsTwo submarines, Sunfish and Sterlet, of the Swordfish class, attached to the Fifth Submarine Flotilla, went aground in Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight, last night ...
Article : 82 wordsHORART, Wednesday.—Warning against unpreparedness for war, and particularly attack on the civil population from the air, was given by the Governor ...
Article : 67 wordsCaptain C. T. I. Roark, the famous British polo player, died in hospital at Pasadena (California) yesterday from an injury to the brain which he suffered ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 23 Feb 1939, Page 11
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